I know what your book says about him, but that doesn’t mean that it is true. Listen here, Mark, I know that you think everything in books is true, but that just idn’t so. This guy writes about local history, but he weren’t here to live it. He’s from New Jersey. What does he know

Mark was sitting on the front porch of Matherson’s store watching the town’s most prominent men play cards. Mark wasn’t playing today. In fact, it is said that the two surest ways to throw away money are to buy a boat and play cards with Mark Pritchett. Anyway, today he was not in the business

This, of course, sounds like a challenge. 🙂 Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G. K. Chesterton